surface, or first side which a body presents to the eye. We say, the face of the earth, of the waters, &c. Polyhedrons have several faces. A die, or cube, has six faces.

Face, is particularly used for the visage of an animal, and especially of man; and comprehends, in the latter, all that part of the head which is not covered with the common long hair. The Latins call it facies, culvis, os, &c.

The human face is called the image of the soul, as being the seat of the principal organs of sense; and the place where the ideas, emotions, &c. of the soul are chiefly set to view. Pride and disdain are shown in the eye-brows, modesty on the cheeks, majesty in the forehead, &c. It is the face shows the sex, age, temperament, health, or disease, &c.

The face, considered as the index of the passions, habits, &c. of the person, makes the subject of physiognomy. See Physiognomy.

Face, among painters and artists, is used to denote a certain dimension of the human body, adopted for determining the proportion which the several parts should bear to one another. See Drawing.

the military art, a word of command, intimating to turn about: thus, face to the right, is to turn upon the left heel a quarter-round to the right; and, face to the left, is to turn upon the right heel a quarter-round to the left.